About Sonja Schulze

Sonja Schulze is a Physiotherapist with over 25 years of experience in managing and treating injuries across the sports, arts, and general population. Sonja’s particular expertise and passion lie in the field of Dance and the Performing arts. She works with all ages, levels, and styles. Sonja’s qualifications include Pilates Practitioner, Fitness leader, Dance teacher, and Philosopher.

Vitality means ” life force” having a healthy, capable, energetic mind, body and spirit that can perform actions of passion and purpose for the wellbeing of all. That, says Sonja, is my goal!

Vitality has seen Sonja’s professional career evolve from dancer to choreographer to physiotherapist to mother to philosopher to educator. Her love for the performing arts, movement and dance has opened many doors for which she is deeply grateful.  She helped pioneer Pilates education in the field of Physiotherapy, developed rehabilitation content for Fitness Leaders Education, and has written and presented workshops on Movement, Dance, Pilates, Injury Prevention and Philosophy. Physiotherapy experience includes the Sydney Olympic Gymnasts Physiotherapy team, consultant to the Australian and Royal Ballet Companies, principal physiotherapist for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and various musical theatre productions over the years, highlights being Boy from Oz, Cats and Rent.

Sonja loves family time, friend time, the theatre, art, books, the outdoors, animals and keeping fit. Recent adventures have included four 70.3 Ironman finishes in the past two years. She has discovered with satisfaction that the ultimate freedom experienced as an artist performing one’s craft with love, correlates to  training with focus, discipline, and practice. Perhaps with a little more suffering! We are capable of way more than our minds tell us, it takes courage to be brave!

Sonja’s experience on stage, back stage, in the clinic and on the life stage enables her to offer you the support you deserve in your journey of vitality.